Oy. More dramas with serial killers and supernatural detectives. I'll watch one or three of these dramas, but for the most part, it looks like there's no end in sight for my Kdrama drought.
I know what you mean. I watched these shows at a time I thought it criminal to leave dramas. Lol. I even finished…
Both y'all got nothing on me. My first Asian drama was "Noble, My Love". So very, very bad, that one and somehow, not bad enough to keep me from watching 100 or more kdramas after.
Go Ah Ra's character in Hwarang was beyond frustrating, She was a capable woman who didn't need anybody until…
So true. I think she cried in every episode (which was the director's fault, really), but even so, it ruined the drama for me, and put me right off Go Ah Ra--possibly permanently.
I've watched it 99 1/2 times, so I'm just saying, but Ha Ji Won's coming and going martial arts prowess in "Secret Garden" near drove me insane. In episode 1, she rides a crappy bike to out race a van full of baddy purse snatchers, stops it, beats all eleventeen gangstas in the van, gets the purse, and gives the purse back to the obnoxious loser who got it grabbed in the first place, but she can't deal with Hyun Bin in later episodes when he manages to grab her wrists. Now, arguably, that's part of the charm of "Secret Garden", but it's suuuuuuper annoying when a FL is drawn to be strong and capable except for when she's a dimwitted crybaby around the ML.
How a drama ends is the one sure thing I check here at MDL, because ain't nothing I dislike more in a drama than having watched 40 or 50 hours of it only to get to a tragic ending. I'm not looking for a good cry ever, but stumbling on one really sucks.
I'm not reading books of any kind lately, much less Chinese novels--which I probably wouldn't read in the first place, for the reason that any book that's been translated so that you can read it rises or falls on the skill of the translator (if you can't read Chinese). Combine that with how a Chinese novel can be mangled to death by adapting it to the screen, and my feeling is you're better off sticking to either the book or dramatization. Doing both will probably make you lose your mind. [Not you, Wandering Queen. You seem to have the knack for it. Good article, by the way!]
I'm still pissed about what happened to Princess Agents, which had some fairly radical departures from the novel. Especially the ending. I'm going to be mad about that forever.
A "lakorn" is a type of Thai drama, like a soap opera, only with more crazy pants. The main characters usually do shocking, extremely illegal things, for which they are rarely punished by law.
You may stumble across this lakorn, read the synopsis or something, and decide that maybe you'll watch it. But don't. Really.
This story is just infuriating. The female characters are all either weak, evil, crazy or too stupid to live. That goes for the male characters, too--especially the ML, who is a walking cartoon of Thai cultural values drawn so stupidly, you'll think you've been beaten to death with a clue bat. How James Ma wound up in this steaming pile of horse poop, I simply can't.
The evil 2nd female lead is wearing some great clothes in this show, though.
The last two years have been quite blah, Kdrama wise, although there've been exceptions which were very good and almost made up for how boring things have been. I thought it was just me thinking that, though. I've been watching Cdramas and Lakorns instead, but these they have their own problems. (I just finished a Lakorn minutes ago that made me want to claw my eyeballs out it was so bad.)
Not so sure about the 2nd one. From my experience, Asian people seem more vulnerable to catching colds if they…
You catch a cold from someone else who has a cold, or from touching a surface exposed to cold virus, which is why frequently washing your hands reduces your exposure to colds (among other illnesses.)
Bad medical advice/presentation is my loudest, largest complaint about Asian dramas! These things drive me absolutely crazy:
1) Someone is shot, stabbed, falls down the stairs, gets pushed out a window--whatever--and someone runs over and scrapes the hurt person up into their arms. Maybe it's just American TV, but doesn't everyone know not to move an injured person? Why aren't Asian viewers entitled to the same advice?
2) You can't catch a cold from walking in the rain. Damn it, Thailand. Stop teaching your viewers this. You also don't become feverish from walking in the rain. Or faint. Still looking at you, Thailand! Stop making your audience stupid.
3) Punching women in the stomach won't cause them to become unconscious. Still looking at you, Thailand. Stop using this as a plot device when you need a female character to become a helpless victim.
4) I have more. Many more. But I'll stop with this: No one walks away from being hit by a car that's moving at speed. You may not die, but lots of your parts are going to be damaged. This is a very simple physics problem.
Movie wasn't . . . awful? But neither was it good. It's disjointed to the point of near incomprehensibility, but you might have the feeling that if you watch the thing while you're squinting at your screen, more of it might make sense. But nah. I watched it because the drama was infuriatingly disappointing, hoping the movie would fix the wrong things in the drama. But nah.
It seems the Koreans are suffering from face blindness a lot. I only heard of this illness after watching the…
Face blindness, which is a real brain disorder, is the inability to recognize people's faces. You can be born with this disorder, or acquire it after injuring your brain. It is somewhat rare, affecting fewer than 2 people in 100. If you're South Korean, however, your odds of being born with, or developing prosopagnosia are much higher, say like 50/50 in 2020, according to Kdramas.
I'll be looking forward to this drama.
I'll be looking forward to this drama.
Thank you so much for the listicle!
I'm still pissed about what happened to Princess Agents, which had some fairly radical departures from the novel. Especially the ending. I'm going to be mad about that forever.
This story is just infuriating. The female characters are all either weak, evil, crazy or too stupid to live. That goes for the male characters, too--especially the ML, who is a walking cartoon of Thai cultural values drawn so stupidly, you'll think you've been beaten to death with a clue bat. How James Ma wound up in this steaming pile of horse poop, I simply can't.
The evil 2nd female lead is wearing some great clothes in this show, though.
1) Someone is shot, stabbed, falls down the stairs, gets pushed out a window--whatever--and someone runs over and scrapes the hurt person up into their arms. Maybe it's just American TV, but doesn't everyone know not to move an injured person? Why aren't Asian viewers entitled to the same advice?
2) You can't catch a cold from walking in the rain. Damn it, Thailand. Stop teaching your viewers this. You also don't become feverish from walking in the rain. Or faint. Still looking at you, Thailand! Stop making your audience stupid.
3) Punching women in the stomach won't cause them to become unconscious. Still looking at you, Thailand. Stop using this as a plot device when you need a female character to become a helpless victim.
4) I have more. Many more. But I'll stop with this: No one walks away from being hit by a car that's moving at speed. You may not die, but lots of your parts are going to be damaged. This is a very simple physics problem.